#mepolyweek

[omegastation]

Are you planning to do another polyweek in the future?

Yes. After Miranda Week (because if I don’t do that one @bioticfox might get grey hair because of me :D)

Anything specific you guys would like for that week?

[rosmaryne]

A bit late but I have some willshenko(Shep/Ashley/Kaidan) headcanons for ME Poly Week (what is Virmire haha?)

Since both John and Kaidan are biotics they’re always warm, Ashley takes advantage of it because she’s cold most of the time. They may scream a bit when she touches them with her cold hands or puts her cold feet on their backs.

They cuddle a lot.

When John has nightmares they hurry to get to his side and hug him tightly and kiss him on the cheek.

Kaidan and Ashley tend to make fun of John’s “I should go” he gets a bit grumpy because of that but they say they still love hearing him saying that.

Seriously there’s a lot of cuddling and hugging going on. John had to buy a bigger bed.

When one of them has a birthday coming the others plan a party weeks before their birthday, they want it to be perfect.

Ashley likes to read poems as John and Kaidan lay beside her, quietly listening to her. They tend to doze off, but it relaxes them and makes them feel at peace.

John and Ash both agree that Kaidan gives the best, warmest hugs. They love hugging him. However, Ash and Kaidan love being hugged by John too because he’s really tall and they feel safe as he hugs them.

Ash is the biggest motivator of the group, Kaidan is the best at calming them down and John is good at making them feel pumped while in battle.

The three of them have inside jokes that no one understands, they’re often seen laughing at some joke they came up with.

John is a vanguard so Ash and Kaidan get worried about him. When he gets hurt because of his recklessness they scold him and then hug him.

Ash and John used to get into bar fights, when Kaidan doesn’t have a migraine he goes with them and makes sure they won’t do something stupid.

They almost broke up because of Mario Kart.

[scottharper]

Pairing: Kaidan/Shepard/Ashley (Willshenko) Warnings: Quite a few mentions of both canon and potential character deaths.

I had some other quick drabbles I was going to post today for ME Poly Week but then I saw this contribution from @fucknooovirmire​ and of course I just had to write something for it because I love their works for this tragically underrated OT3~

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Shepard can’t stop the nightmares.

He sees himself going after the little boy from Earth, but no matter how fast he runs he can never catch up to him in time before the flames engulf him again, and all around him he hears the hushed whispers of those he’s lost, a harsh chorus of their last words to him.

Thane. Mordin. Legion. All of them had died fighting for something they believed in or wanted to protect, while Shepard could only stand there and watch. But then his sleeping mind takes their noble sacrifices and twists them into the worst possible outcomes.

Mordin dies for nothing, spreading a false genophage cure and it’s Wrex who comes after him, so enraged and betrayed, and Shepard can never stop his dream self from pulling the trigger and putting one of his oldest friends down.

Legion uploads itself to end the battle between the Quarians and Geth but then the fighting still doesn’t stop, not until the debris from the dead, broken fleets fall from the skies over Rannoch like rain. Shepard loses Legion again no matter what, and in the worst of those dreams he loses Tali too.

When he dreams of Thane it’s never during the attack on the Citadel, but back on Collector base, and it’s never just Thane he loses. He sees all of his friends die in so many different ways, caught up in explosions, carried away by the Seeker swarms, killed in the Normandy crash before they even reach the base, dying while defending the colonists and crew they rescued, and sometimes they just slip through his fingers when the base collapses after they killed the Human-Reaper machine.

Over and over the nightmares come, but as odd as it sounds, the worst nightmares are the ones he has about losing the people who are still with him. More specifically, when he loses Ashley and Kaidan..

It’s always the Reapers that take them away, and it doesn’t matter what Shepard does to try and stop it. Even when a small part of his subconscious knows he’s dreaming he never calls out the warning soon enough, never runs fast enough to reach them, and he can only watch as Kaidan and Ashley look at him from where they’ve collapsed, reaching for him just before they’re engulfed in the Reaper’s red blast and when Shepard jolts himself awake moments later he can still feel the ache in his pounding heart, hands shaking as he pushes the sheets off of himself, and it’s a wonder to him that he’s never cried out for them in his sleep.

Tonight’s no different, it seems, and for a few seconds after waking up Shepard just stares at the roof of his cabin, trying not to make too much noise as he catches his breath and gets his racing heart back down to its normal pace.  

On either side of him Kaidan and Ashley are both still sleeping, the thin sheet tucked under their nude forms because it had just been too warm earlier after their exertions, and Shepard’s glad that he doesn’t have to try disentangling himself from any blankets as he sits up, slowly moving down to sit at the end of the bed.

The cool air of the room feels good on his heated skin, and Shepard takes a deep breath as he brushes his hands over his face. They’ll be heading to the Sol Relay soon and he needs to rest, needs to focus, but his mind is hazy, and hasn’t quite caught up to the fact that everything he saw was just a nightmare.

His partners aren’t gone. They’re both sleeping just a few feet away from him, safe and sound, but as much as he knows this peaceful moment won’t last he can’t bring himself to just enjoy it either. Not with so much hanging over them..

“..Shepard?”

“You okay, Skipper?”

Damn it.

Shepard closes his eyes with a soft sigh when he hears them stirring behind him; he’d hoped to get through this without disturbing either one of them but he probably could’ve guessed that that wasn’t going to happen. Even when they weren’t in the same room they just seemed to know when something was wrong with him.

The mattress dips a little as both of them move up from their own spots to sit beside him, Kaidan on his left and Ashley on his right, but for a moment Shepard can’t answer or meet their gazes because in the back of his mind he can still see it: the Reaper’s beam cutting through the battlefield, devastating everything it hits, and mocking him just before it takes away the two most important people in his life.

Shepard tries not to flinch as he tries to chase the thought away, and he lets out a shuddery breath before he reaches down to take both of their hands in his, drawing them up to his mouth to press soft kisses to both of their knuckles but then he just holds their hands there, unwilling to release them but still too scared to meet their eyes.

Shepard can almost feel the looks being shared between his partners but neither of them try to draw their hands away, or pressure him to speak before he’s ready. After a few moments Kaidan reaches up with his free hand, gently rubbing the shoulder on his side to try soothing him, and then Shepard feels selfish.

They’re both scared too. They’ve both got family and friends they’ve lost to this war too, and he should be the one comforting them. He forged the alliances, he’s the one leading the charge, and he’s the one everyone’s looking to for strength, whether they were already fighting in the trenches or standing on the CIC desk awaiting his next orders.

He’s Commander Shepard, the one the entire galaxy’s watching, and if he can’t stay strong then.. Well, he already knows what’ll happen then, but telling himself to put on the brave face and be the fearless leader is so much easier than actually doing it.

Maybe it is selfish and maybe it isn’t but right now.. right now he just needs them.

“Are we gonna make it?”

The words are out before Shepard can stop himself, and a silence just hangs over the three of them as they all seem to struggle with what to say next. Shepard bites back another sigh, hands falling down to his lap, but still he doesn’t release the hold he has on theirs. He’s just not willing to let them go yet, in any sense of the word.

“It’s gonna be..” Kaidan starts to reply but then he trails off and they all know it’s because there’s not much he can say that would really reassure them, and after another moment Kaidan lets out a soft, sigh. “It’s gonna be what it is, but for what it’s worth.. I think we’re ready. You’ve put the people and the vision together, Shepard. You’ve built hope, for all of us.”

“Well, I’m glad I inspire that in you,” Shepard replies quietly, his gaze still fixed ahead of him. Kaidan gently rubs his arm again as Ashley lean over, resting her head against Shepard’s other shoulder, and he relishes in the comfort of the physical contact. “We all knew this moment was coming, but now that it’s here.. It just feels like I’m forgetting something..”

“You’re not forgetting anything, Skipper,” Ashley says, and the tone she speaks with makes Shepard almost believe it, or at least makes him want to believe it. “We’ve got a chance now and we’re all behind you, okay?”

“Okay,” Shepard answers, and saying it actually seems to take some of the tension away. Ashley nuzzles her face against his as Kaidan presses a soft kiss to his shoulder, and Shepard finally raises his head to look at them. “You two being here, with me.. It means everything. And you’re both right; we’ve got hope and a fighting chance now, and we’ll kick the Reapers back to hell.”

They both smile before leaning forward, almost in sync as gently press their foreheads against his temples, and Shepard closes his eyes again, taking in how different their hands felt in his grip as he breathes in their scents , so unique compared to one another’s but still blending so perfectly to him.

He feels a pang in his chest again but this time it’s not fear, but the reminder of how much these two mean to him, how much he completely and utterly loves them. He’s still scared, more than he’s ever been before, but they were right. Thanks to the alliances made and the hope they inspired they all had a real chance against defeating the Reapers, and both of his partners would be with him until the end, no matter what that meant.

“We’re both with you, Shepard,” Ashley replies, smiling as she kisses his cheek, and Shepard finally manages a smile of his own, which only grows when Kaidan kisses his other cheek.

“Until the end of the line,” Kaidan finishes, and when the silence falls again it’s not filled with the fear of what the next few hours would bring, but with the comfort and safety they all get from each other’s presence, and for the first time in a long time Shepard doesn’t worry that this quiet moment will be their last. Instead he’ll use this memory to overcome the doubts, overcome the fears, and he’ll drag himself across the battlefield if it means having the chance to hold these two in his arms again.

Let’s see the nightmares take that from him.

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[rabid-raygun-art]

back with cleaned up lines & a space-themed background for me poly week: these nerds <3

[lorspolairepeluche]

ship aesthetics (2/?) - dukejackjames (duke shepard/jack/james vega)

love is the one thing that transcends time and space –lobo, nought, and muscles–

[vonuberwald]

Eventually, all roads will lead here. Jem with Steve and James - through fire and rubble, they emerged stronger. The quote is from here and this is for ME Poly Week, celebrating the beauty of polyamorous relationships.

(commissions // coffee)

[jerichoakiyama]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

My little contribution to MEPolyWeek! I want to give a shout out to @ellebeedarling for being an inspiration for this piece. I really wanted to stretch why wings by trying to get this out before the deadline, and I’m really glad that I did. This is probably one of my favorite ships now. Hope you guys enjoy!

Oh, and before I forget, I need to tag  @daravakarian  because if it weren’t for them, this post wouldn’t be here now.

[omegastation]

Since it’s Poly Week, what are your favorite poly ships from the trilogy or MEA?

I'm weirdly not coming up with a lot of poly ships for MEA. I have my OT3 but it's still early so I'm just wondering who could be good together, why, and how they'll find a good balance together.